Use of SD cards for music

[owl1972]

Hi all, my new A6 avant is on order. I am avidly trying to learn all I can about the vehicle in the mean time and am thoroughly enjoying reading all the threads on here and wishing March next year would hurry up. One specific question. What's the score with SD cards for music in the A6. I have not yet progressed from just using SD cards in my digital camera. What's the biggest size that can be used? How many songs will they hold? Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer my early query.

Richard

[Guest 2]

I'm pretty sure the car will read up to 32gb - 32gb is a lot so I'm guessing near 1000 songs?

Look through this section

[belly buster]

One song is about 5Mb on average. So 32Gb would be 6,400 songs.

[foxy367]

32Gb is the biggest you can use. SDHC cards are best and if you set up the music in folders like you would on Windows explorer in artist and album titles its really easy to find music it will also take MP3, MP4 and AAC files. Also if you copy in Jpeg files for the album art into the folder for the album these usually display on the centre screen too (although for some reason a few on my directory don't).

I think this is as easy to use as an Ipod and if you don't opt for the AMI then its a great replacement.

[MAVAV]

32Gb is the biggest you can use

Not strictly true. You can go up to 128GB if you wish, but I find that 64GB are the best compromise between price and capacity and I have been using the Sandisk 64GB Class 10 Ultra SDXC cards with great success. I have two loaded into my car, one for music and one for videos. The 32GB capacity comes from the fact the windows only allows you to format up to 32GB using FAT, anything above 32GB is formatted using exFAT which the car cannot read. However there are plenty of disk formatting programs available that will allow you to reformat the SD card using the FAT format.

[bwoody]

I stuck a 32gb card in my A6 C6 and it works really well. Just copied all the folder directories for artists, albums etc from itunes which I was using for my ipod anyway. You get full track selection and everything. I have found it just as good if not better than the alpine ipod interface that I installed in my Seat Leon. I will find out what card I bought and post a link for you. Think is paid about £15 for my 32gb card.

[bwoody]

Here is a link to the card I bought (SanDisk 32GB Ultra 30MB/s SD Card (SDHC) - Class 10): SanDisk 32GB Ultra 30MB/s SD Card (SDHC) - Class 10 £16.99 - Free Delivery

Hope that helps

[robbyg]

i use a 32gb. i have over 100 album CDs on it plus a few months of pod casts, its only using 13GB so far. Great not needing CDs in the car.

The juke box function using the built in hard drive is rubbish as it uses itunes track ordering as opposed to windows style folders. I just use the SD card all the time.

Rememer you need to set files as mp3, not the m4a itunes defaults to.

[sofaspud]

Can you use the SD cards out of the packaging or do they need to be formatted?

[bwoody]

Can you use the SD cards out of the packaging or do they need to be formatted?

I am pretty sure I used mine as it came and it works fine. Most SD cards come formatted as FAT 32 format which is fine for music etc.